Cars (2006)

Cars Synopsis

Cars is the saga of Lightning McQueen, a hot-shot animated stock-car voiced by actor Owen Wilson. En route to a big race, the cocky McQueen gets waylaid in Radiator Springs, where he finds the true meaning of friendship and family.

After an early trailer that made Cars look like it was well on its way to being Pixar's first bad movie, things are looking up for the little gear head movie. The film's latest trailers are absolutely beautiful, a marked contrast the bland, uninspiring stuff we first saw from the film.

It’s Pixar, so of course that no matter how shaky the concept you have to give this movie the benefit of the doubt. Double that, since the film is directed by Pixar giant and now Disney animation head John Lasseter. Lasseter is well on his way to being the new Walt Disney, and anything the guy touches instantly turns to gold.

What was to be Pixar’s last film with Disney has become the first shining symbol of Pixar and Disney’s new permanent partnership after Disney bought out the Lamp Jr. inspired, computer animation company. But who bought who? Disney paid for Pixar, but it’s Pixar’s creative minds that ended up in charge of Disney. Cars is the last product of their old cooperation and a harbinger of the new, closer relationship which may well end up being the thing that saves Disney from its inevitable slide into irrelevance and direct to DVD pandering.

Watch for Cars to clean up at the box office this summer, good or not. The Pixar reputation means everything, and in a year absolutely glutted with computer animated movies their work continues to stand head and shoulders above the competition. Even the voice casting of newly anointed box office poison Larry the Cable guy can’t ruin that.

This is the latest in a long line of “Cars Toons,” which tend to focus on Mater and his many adventures. Getting Owen Wilson to return is a coup. Perhaps he was hanging around the Pixar campus running lines for Cars 3.

Top Gun stars Anthony Edwards and Val Kilmer were brought on board Planes to lend their voices to two F-18 jets named Bravo and Echo. In the sneak peek above, we get to see them in action, racing against this animated adventure's plucky underdog protagonist Dusty (voiced by stand up comedian Dane Cook) , a crop duster who hopes to overcome his fear of heights to become the world's greatest flyer.

Based on the world and design of Pixar's Cars, the simply titled Planes takes the premise of talking vehicles to the high skies. Originally, this was conceived as a straight-to-DVD release, but last December Disney surprised us by announcing the animated adventure had been promoted to a summer theatrical release. Will it be better than Cars 2? Take a look at its new trailer, and decide for yourself.

Tomorrow will be a dark day for movie lovers. On Friday, June 23, 2011 the most impressive winning streak in Hollywood’s history will come to an end with the release of Cars 2. It’ll be Pixar’s twelfth movie since they first began releasing them with Toy Story in 1995, and it’s also their first bad one.

For anyone who’s ever wondered what it looks like when cars go to the bathroom, Cars 2 has a brand new, full trailer from Disney which rather definitively answers that question. Here’s the thing: It’s not bad but it doesn’t seem at all like a Pixar movie.

Pixar movies mean great characters. What better way to advertise their latest, than by letting you have a closer look at its stars? The filmmaking geniuses behind Disney’s high-watermark animation division

In the original Cars a big city race car had to deal with dusty, small town life. In the sequel, Lightning McQueen and Mater end up in Tokyo, embroiled in some sort of spy mystery. Mater the small town tow truck is stuck dealing with glitzy, glamorous, big city life

You probably won’t see any of that in the sequel, Cars 2, since the movie takes the characters to Europe and the movie’s first teaser trailer promises that somehow, Lightning McQueen and Mater are about

Ever wonder how Pixar’s best-of-the-best stack up against one another? Well, now you can get a general idea thanks to a graphic artist named Juan Pablo Bravo. Bravo’s ‘100 Pixar Characters’ puts some of our favorite

Cars 2 could be in trouble. The sequel, slated for a 2011 release, has been in production for some time now but the Brad Lewis directed film is rumored to be having problems and firs time director Lewis may be out

We may have to wait a little longer for the next adventures of Lightning McQueen. The movie has been pushed back from its planed June 24, 2011 and will instead arrive in theaters some time in December of that year

Disney has released a first look at Cars 2, in the form of concept art included as part of their annual report. In the sequel, “The world’s a racetrack as superstar Lightning McQueen zooms back into action to take on the globe’s fastest in cars 2

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